Cricket 1912

264 CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J un e 22, 1912. Cyphers went out cheaply to the bowling of E . J . Bridger and W . L . Perkins at Dulwich, and tbe home team ran up 194 (P. H . Slater 58). Bridger is one of the deadliest fast bowlers of the season, and it does not seem to m atter to him upon what type of wicket he operates. Parson's Green (without A. C. Higgs, who was playing for his bank) went down to Roehampton. Old Merchant Taylors, still going strongly, beat Addiscombe by 38 runs, E . N. Fu ller’s 48 and the bowling of B yan and Jam eson being prominent factors in the win. The Addiscombe tail played up pluckily, Holman and Ridge making a stand when all had seemed lost. A six and eighteen 4’s were included in C. F . W elch’s fine innings of 114 * for Stanm ore v. TJ. C. S. Old Boys. T be home side declared at 227 for 5, and won by 108, the highest score for the 0 . B .’s being 20 by J . N . Crawford (not the J . N. C., but the other J . N .C .). ---------------- H . Mathews had a big say in W orthing’s victory over St. Jo h n ’s (Brighton). In an innings of 90 he took 6 wickets for 25, and when his side went in to make 9 1 in 85 m inutes on a plow pitch he scored 43. Worthing won with 10 minutes to spare E . H . W illiam s con­ tributed 1 1 2 to a total of 17 5 made by M idhurst v. G rayling well H ospital. There was a capital game at H ayw ard’s Heath, when the home side declared at 2 2 1 for 7 (E. J . Markwick 76, E . C. Baker 54), and got down the last wicket of the Spartans in the last over of the day for 152. M. Tate, a younster of 17 attached to the Sussex Nursery, had 9 for 49. He ought to make a county cricketer before long. An old county cricketer in Arthur Collins ran up 63, highest score in the match between St. Peter's (Brighton) and E ast Grin- stead. Collins has lost little of his old powers. The Rev. M. B erkley, who has played for Oxford University and for E*sex, scored 8 1* for Cowfold (of which pretty village he is vicar) v. Shoreham G .S . M. T. Baines (65*) and H. L . W ilson (50) batted well for Horsham v. M itcham—a drawn game. W . T . Hallward scored 90 for E a st Sussex County Asylum v. Eastbourne. Though Hampstead won at home, the two Hampstead teams playing away both went down, and in curiously like fashion, In each case Hampstead had first innings, in each case made but little over a hundred, and in each case saw their opponents make nearly 200—thus : Hampstead 12 5 —Woodford Wells 199 for 9. Hampstead 1 1 1 —Brentwood 197. For Brentwood A. P. Lu cas was top scorer, and C. J . Kortright took three wickets. A. H, Read was also playing, so that there was quite an Essex county flavour about the side. Woodford Wells won by very level batting, six m en’s scores varying from 2 1 to 34. Another fine bowling performance by Groves gave the Mote a brilliant win over the Incogniti by 5 wickets. Swinging in as he does when at his best, the young pro. clean bowled two men in his first over, and a little later took 3 wickets in 4 balls, his analysis standing at 5 for 6 then. A blow on the ankle handicapped him after that, but he bowled all through, and in the end had 7 for 57. The Incogs, had 8 down for 58, and 9 for 80; but a grand last wicket partnership by E . J . Metcalfe (who has played the game in several parts of the world, Queensland and Egypt among them) and E . A. W illett added 110 to the total. Tossw ill, top scorer for the Mote, is the well-known footballer, recently transferred from Queen’s Park Rangers to Liverpool, and formerly of Maidstone. Thus far this season Groves has taken 4 1 wickets in seven innings for the Mote, and has hit the sticks 34 times ! R iver Plate House, lacking their crack, Buckeridge, went under to Old Colfeians, for whom L . H . M ills and A . N. Doorly batted, and L . C. M iller and E . R . Taylor bowled well, by 85 runs. At Upper Tooting Roupell P ark ran up 19 3 for 7 v. Bellevue, and then declared. Two of the Bellevue players were seriously hurt while fielding, but after being surgically attended pluckily came out to bat. B u t it was not Bellevue’s day ; they were all out for 53. As a set-off the club’s second team had a narrow victory over Sanderstead by 6 runs, W. H . Clements contributing 68 to their total of 184. Upper Sydenham brought off two capital victories on Saturday and Monday. The B exley bowlers had great difficulty in parting Gillespie and W ilkinson, both known to Surrey County fame. They got the latter in at last, but Gillespie was 100* when the score was declared at 203 for 2. Then W ilkinson had a turn with the ball, and took 7 wickets, the home team only reaching 103. On Monday S. E . W alm isley was top scorer with 94; the total was 180, and in reply Bickley Park (W. Phillips 58*) made 1]9 . When the visitors batted again J . E . Greenwood, the Cantab Rugger crack, ran up 77. E . G. Read played a fine innings of 82 for Heathfield v. Poly* technic, he and M. Jackson sending up 12 0 for the first wicket. Heathfield declared at 2 2 1 for 7, and a long stand by Ogilvie and Fenemore for the visitors made the declaration appear somewhat premature, especially as all the home bowlers except the veteran M ills (7 for 50) were ineffective. But the Polytechnic could not stay the pace, and were 205 for 8 at the end. H . R . Rennie (71) was again in form for Derrick W anderers; Street hit twelve 4’s in his 56, and Bawcutt (48) batted well. B ut .Brixton, after the Wanderers had declared at 237 for 7, played out time, in spite of some capita^ bowling. A stand of 106 for the first wicket of Hounslow by H . E . White (70) and J . H . Saunders (39) was the principal cause of G . W . R .’s defeat. Grugeon and C. E . Honeyball bowled really well, but the two Hounslow batsmen had the luck of Rhodes and Spooner. WThen once they were parted wickets fell fast, and the whole side went for 149. Except for E . Gibbs, the railw ay batsmen failed—hard to account for, the wicket being quite good—and were all out for 80 on the stroke of time. Spencer and Private Banks had a rare tussle. One after another the Spencer batsmen made good scores—Jennings 83*, Woodward 56*, Boles 49, Gordon 28, Barton 25. At 263 for 3 Gordon declared. The B anks had 125 minutes to bat, and, though splendid forcing cricket by Melville, W. A. Sm ith, Jo n es—and, for that matter, nearly everyone who went in—scored at the rate of two a minute, and were only 14 short of victory (7 wickets down) at time. Woodward kept wicket adm irably. It is with the greatest regret I learn that W. D. Macbeth, Spencer’s captain, was taken seriously ill on Wednesday, and under­ went an operation for appendicitis the same night. All who have played against Macbeth will wish him the speediest of recoveries. He is progressing favourably, but there will be no more cricket for him this season. John Gordon must take over the reins. To date Spencer have not lost a match, winning 6 and drawing 3. Southgate’s victory over a good M .C.C. team was great. The premier club’s eleven was dismissed for 14 6 ; then, thanks to C. A. Caslon (133) and S. H. Saville, the Cambridge blue (58), Southgate ran up 235 for 6. Blackheath beat Beckenham by 12 runs only, the game being anyone’s till after the ninth Blackheath wicket had gone down. Fram lingham Masters had a great day at the expense of Leiston — 303 for 3, dec., H. Bassett, the old Oxford blue, scoring a century, and everyone else who batted over 3 5 ; then W illans and Bassett disposed of the opposition for 62, no one reaching double figures. Phoenix Assurance entertained Norwich Union Fire Office. I say entertained advisedly. The Norwich team were the guests of the Phoenix for the week-end, being put up at tbe Liverpool Street Hotel, where a dinner and concert in the Norfolk and Suffolk rooms followed the match. So hospitable were the Phoenix men that they would not even allow their visitors to go home beaten, though, to show what they could do they pushed them to the narrow margin of 8 runs. The summarised score will be found on another page. Mr. E . A. Boston took the chair at the dinner and concert, and the latter was under the direction of Mr. Rupert Pounds, who himself rendered K ipling’s “ Follow me ’om e” (music by Higgs) and Thompson’s “ Come, sing to m e.” In years gone by I knew' the N .U .F.O . well. Surrey Street, Norwich, was fam iliar ground to me. My old friend W. H . Loades did not go in last then ! B ut veteran as he is, he was the right man in an emergency like Saturday’s, runs still being wanted when he went in. W . C. Walton I remember too, though barely, and S. R. B . Cowles, who has played for Norfolk. A las, the flying years ! Hampstead Nomads had their first eleven match scratched, St. M ary’s Hospital discovering late on Frid ay afternoon that another medical team was using the ground. The second team had a big task set them in facing Hendon at full strength. Hendon made 198. The Nomads played on in a wretched light till 7 .15 , and then still had one wicket to go with 120 up, thanks to a capital stand by Colquhoun and H irst towards the finish. They deserved to save the game. < At Tidal basin South-West Ham put up another good score. How’ard made 75, and Cossington, M itchell, and Connor all con­ tributed useful innings. Declaring at 274 for 8, they got Eastern Nomads out for 12 1. Beulah met Forest Rangers on a dreadful wicket at Barkingside. The home team lost 5 for 5, but managed to scrape together 44 in